Meat block scrapee



March 27, 1951 Wa/ zr .5 Young Patented Mar. 27, 1951 UNITED STATEls MEAT BLOCK SGRAPER W alter S. Young, Tulsa, Okla. Application Beceinber l, 194?, Serial No. 789,578

1 Claim. 1

The invention relates to meet block scrapers and levelers, and has'for its object to provide a device of this kind comprising an elongated handie member havin a longitudinal. channel. in the under ide thereof, and rhea {or clamping downwardly diverging scraper blades in opposite sides of the channel.

A furth r object is to provide a wedging strip within the channel and held in position. by screws cooperating with. the body member for securely clamping the scraping elements against the side walls of the channel.

A further object is to provide the clamping member with integral upwardly extending members receivable in apertures in the body member and screws threaded into the extension, and cooperating with portions of the body member so the clamping member may be forced into binding engagement with the scraping elements.

With the above and other objects in view the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawing, described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention may he within. the scope or" what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view or" the scraper and leveler.

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse sectional View showing the dual scraper elements.

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a vertical transverse sectional view through a modified form of scraper.

Figure 5 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through the modified form and taken on line 55 of Figure 4.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral i designates the elongated handle member, opposite sides of which handle are grooved at 2, so the handle can be grasped by both hands of the operator for imparting reciprocation to the tool, or a rotary movement during a scraping or planing operation.

The device is described as a meat block scraper or planer, however it is understood it may be used for general scraping purposes.

The underside of the handle member I is provided with a longitudinally extending channel 3, the opposite sides of which channel incline down wardly and outwardly, as at 4, and preferably at a thirty degree angle to the vertical, to obtain the maximum scraping efficiency, and clamped against the surfaces 4 are scraping elements 5, which may be hack saw blades or straight scrapins elements.

The blades 5 are clamped against the inclined surfaces l by a longitudinally extending wedging strip the sides of t rich conform to the angles of the blades, the wrdging strip is held in pon by means of screws '5, which screws have their heads 8 in metallic ferrules 53, therefore it will. be seen that the blades will be rigidly held at all times to stand a reciprocating motion of the tool as a whole, and also a rotary motion. Any number of screws '1 may be used.

Referring to the mod fled form shown in Figures a and 5, the operation is the same but the clamping member Ea. is formed from metal and is provided with spaced integral upwardly extending s: ts which shafts are received vertical apertures l i in the handle member I, and terminate adjacent the bottom oi the countercores !2. Disposed within the counteroores I2, and on washers it, are screws Ml, adapted to receive a screw driver for controlling the clamping and unclamping operation of the scraper blades 5.

From the above it will be seen that a scraping and planing tool is provided which is simple in construction, the parts reduced to a m himum, and one wherein the blades are positively held and can be renewed from time to time without entirely disassembling the tool.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is:

A scraping tool comprising an elongated han dle 1 member, said handle member having its under side provided with a channel, opposite sides of said channel diverging downwardly and outwardly, a clamping member within the channel and conforming to the shape of the handle member channel, said clamping member comprising a plate, opposite sides of said plate being formed with downwardly diverging flanges, said clamping member having spaced upwardly extending integral studs extending through apertures in the handle member, and headed, screws disposed in counter-bores in the handle member above the apertures and threaded into the upwardly extending studs.

WALTER S. YOUNG.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 586,164 Denere July 13, 1897 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 225,172 Germany Aug. 19, 1910 385,688 Germany Dec. 11, 1923 

